Re: touch -h

[Eric Blake]

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According to Eric Blake on 10/17/2009 2:53 PM:
> Besides, it is consistent with many other tools that use -h to mean
> operation on symlinks proper (even though POSIX 2008 forgot to add 'touch
> -h'), including these from POSIX: chown, chgrp, file
> 
> [I still have 'chown -h' on my todo list...]

I meant 'chmod -h', since we already have 'chown -h'.  It won't work on
Linux, where fchmodat(,AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) fails as permitted by POSIX,
but will work on BSD and match their implementation:
http://www.ipnom.com/FreeBSD-Man-Pages/chmod.1.html

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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